A Coronavirus Prayer
Life lessons from Georgia,
Delaware, the COVID-19 Pandemic and from Connections (May 2020)
Laurie Kelly’s
progress continues, click on the link to see her on May 4, 2019 and May 4,
2020; continued prayer for Laurie, Brian and their children will be appreciated.
Liz & Kyle’s
children see their brother for the first time via Facetime [see below] on May 4, 2020, and yesterday
Kellen David arrived home to meet his brothers and sister in person, please
pray for the Koch’s and their new addition.
It’s been a difficult
and trying Easter for all of us, but columnist Yvonne Abraham, writing in The
Boston Globe [March 25, 2020], wonders if this Easter could be the beginning of
something extraordinary:
“What would the world
be like if the things that have become so important to us during this pandemic
remained so? How would our lives look, if our values and priorities were
frozen, right here? If we were always as kind to each other, and as worried
about the world, as we are today?
“We would
do just about everything differently.
“We would
pay teachers (blessings be upon them!) as much as hedge-funders.
“Our hands
would always be so clean, we could eat off them.
“We would
have more respect, and money, for low-wage workers who deliver our basic needs:
grocery store clerks and others who work to bring food to our tables; drivers
who keep bringing packages to the doors of the luckiest among us; trash haulers
and maintenance workers and janitors and others who put themselves at risk to
protect us.
“We would
really see the folks who work in restaurants, most of them for lousy money, and
insist that they earn wages that match their dignity.
“We would leave
bigger tips . . .
“We would spend less
money on things that serve no purpose except to signal status, care less about
impressing strangers, make more of what we have last. We would waste less,
period . . .
“We would spend more
time with our family and friends, and be more keenly aware of our massive good
fortune to have them, especially the older ones. We would hug longer, and linger in each
other’s presence . . .
“We would love our
neighbor. Yep, even that one.
“We would work
together to make those who are alone feel less so . . .
“We would be more
grateful for all we have, and more outraged at what others do not.
The
most important question to think about as we continue our Pandemic Life is Will
we be happier when the Pandemic ends and our new normal begins, how long and
how loving will our memories be?
The
Easter Season calls us to change for the better, COVID 19 urges us to change
for the better, Laurie & Brian Kelly wants us to change for the better,
Kellen David Koch wants to live in a better world, and Jesus wants us to become
truly an Easter people during and after this Coronavirus Pandemic, if we do the
world will be a better place and we will be better people.
May God Be Praised!
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